Graphic writers Kate Charlesworth and Una talk with Una McCormack about their different visions and stories about the North of England in this online Event.

Online. £5 plus booking fee. Book via eventbrite.

In A Girls Guide to Sensible Footwear, Kate Charlesworth presents a glorious pageant of LGBT history, as she takes us on a PRIDE march from the 1950s to the present day. Sensible Footwear is the first graphic history charting lesbian life from 1950 to the present. It is a stunning, personal, graphic memoir that shows Kate, growing up in Yorkshire, trying to find role models wherever she could.

Una’s Eve tells the story of a young woman born into dramatic social change in the near future, brought about by environmental disaster and deep-rooted prejudice, in her Yorkshire community. Eve grows up in a loving family that is increasingly threatened by a society which seems to be sleepwalking into totalitarianism. After a catastrophe that changes everything, Eve must set off on her own, over the wild Yorkshire moors, to try to find a new way to live and love.

This event is hosted by Dr Una McCormack, a New York Times bestselling science fiction author, who is passionate about women’s writing, science fiction, and helping people find their words and voices.

Order their books via our shop on bookshop.org - all proceeds go to the Portico Library, which is a charity: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/summer-events-at-the-portico-library-2022

Rewriting the North is funded by the Arts Council and is curated by the Portico Library in partnership with the Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Metropolitan University. It was first hosted in 2019 in the lead up to the 2020 Portico Prize.